St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-25
THE MANCHESTER MARTYRS.
a Great Meeting Held in Honor
OfTheir Memory at Chicago.

of Their Memory at Chicago.
CHICAGO, Nov. 23.-High UP in the
organ loft of Central Music hall tonight
were suspended the names of Allen,
O'Br;en and Larkin, surrounded by
broad bands of crepe. which draped to
the stage and across the pipes of the
great organ on either side. On either
side of the stage was a large ban
ner imprinted with the follow
ing: 1857, Manchester Martyrs
Allen, Larkin ard O'Brien." On the
other side was the invocation: 1887, Re
member Mitchelstown. LOnergan. Shin
nick and Casey" The occasion was the
Chicago memorial of the twentieth ami
versary of the day when the three Irish
patriots yielded up their lives at Man
chester, England. and incidentally was
homage to the other trio of Irishmen
who fell before a recent charge of con-
stabulary at Mitchelstown, Ireland.
Every seat in the great hall was occu-
pied early, while there stood i'll the
aisleS sufficient number to
swell the gathering to an audience Of
5000 persons. \ large representation
of uniformed but unarmed members of
the Grammatical and Hibernian rifles
were seated OH the platform. Exon
gresham John T. Finerty presided. He
related the circumstances under which
Allen, Larkin and O'Brien persisted on
an English scaffOld twenty years ago.
1t was then the custom. the chairman
said, to arrest Irish leaders on Irish soil.
and in lOathsOme dungeons assaSsinate
them by slow means as they were now
attempting on William O'Brien.
In Manchester, on English soil,
irish ayilpS baH 1aSa1aH FOL
Dacey and Col. Kelly. who landed in
England from America only to be ar
rested for conspiracy. In the rescue an
English officer was accidentally killed,
and for this these three were hanged
In concluding. Mr.. FineTty said: Let
us send tidings of the honor we give
these men across the waves to Ireland
to penetrate the gloomy dungeon of
William 0'Brien, and may God speed
the day when the fires of Irish venge-
ance Will rush on England's tyranny
the fire of million volcanoes" At
this point, while the 5000 listeners were
in tumult of enthusiasm. Hon. John
f. Fitzgerald was introduced as the or
atOr of the evening. He said that the
spirit of the audience, and the numbers
present Oh such an occasion was proof
that the Irish race was worthy of free
dom. The glory of Ireland was not so
much in the past as in the not distant
future. In the natiOnaliSm of the Irish
is the hope of their race. and as a result
of recent events. the demand for separa-
ton from England was stronger to-day
than ever. To-day the cry of the
sons of Ireland. scattered 10000, 600
strong over the world. is the cry of that
brave old rebel. John Mitchell: 1--WE
have not made peace with England, and
we never will" The great audience
wildly echoed never" The speaker
here asked the question, But why do
we glorify these three men who were
hanged? Why not glOrify others who
have been hanged?'' Such a question
had been put to him during the day.
The audience instantly understood to
whom the question alluded, when the
! speaker continued: He is poor phil
OSOpher who cannot see the distinction
1t is the cause that glorifies and can
OniZes the act. There was glory and
honor to the Jewish maid who dipped
her hands in tyrant's blood, but only
| eXecration for Guiteau, who assassin
ated the representative of liberty" The
speaker added: ''If the present move
ment in Ireland fails, what then?"
Some one in the audience started the
yell sigma" but the speaker shut him
off by proceeding with the address,
leaving the question unanswered. Mr..
Fitzgerald concluded with the declara-
ton that if the British government re-